HISTORY OF THE PINK 53 



markings on these were on a white ground, but there was 

 another section called Rose Pinks, in which the .ground 

 colour was rose, with the petals marked and laced with a 

 darker shade. Of the last-named section is Anne Boleyn, 

 a variety raised about seventy years ago, and figured in The 

 Florist's Magazine, 1835-36. It is still cultivated alike 

 for its beauty as a flower and for its pleasant perfume. 



About 1850, "Lord Lyons," the forerunner of what 

 has proved a most useful section, called Border, and also 

 Forcing Pinks was secured by a gardener of Bury St. 

 Edmunds, named James Clarke, the parents being a seed- 

 ling derived from a Laced Pink and Anne Boleyn. i Lord 

 Lyons has not yet been surpassed in its colour, purple, 

 but the range of colours has been greatly extended, 

 latterly, sorts with picotee edges having been produced. 

 Even more popular and more useful than these are the 

 White Cutting Pinks, the first of which was Mrs. Sinkins, 

 derived from a cross between a Clove Carnation and a 

 Pink, and than these no Pinks are so largely cultivated at 

 the present time. 



Before concluding this chapter^ it may be remarked 

 that Loudon, as well as some other early authorities, con- 

 sidered the Pink not solely an improved cultural form or 

 Dianthus plumarius, as is, perhaps, too rashly assumed in 

 these days, but that D. deltoldes and varieties of the Car- 

 nation at one time or other contributed to its production. 

 A careful examination of the case leaves one satisfied 

 that Loudon's conception is largely consistent with fact. 

 Carnations, undoubtedly, as in the case of some present- 

 day varieties, have played a part in their production, the 

 Old Man's-head, for instance, by several old writers 

 having been assumed to be more closely allied to a Car- 

 nation than to a Pink, and I think it not unlikely that the 

 Rose laced forms, of which Anne Boleyn alone remains 

 to us, were partly derived from that sort. Nor is it 

 unlikely that D. superbus is unrepresented. 



